Unit 5

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Jiashan No.2 Senior High School

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How much do you

know about Canada?

1. What language (s) do Canadians speak?

A. English

B. English and German

C. English and French

D. English and Spanish

2. What is the capital of Canada?

A. B.

Vancouver Toronto

C. D.

Calgary Ottawa

Vancouver Calgary

Thunder Bay Toronto

Position

The R

ocky Mountains

Ottawa

3. What is the national animal of Canada?

A. B.

Beaver Grizzly bear

C. D.

Polar bear Penguin

4. What is the Canadian leader called?

A. President

B. Prime Minister

C. Governor

D. King

5. How many “Great Lakes” are there in Canada?

A. 4

B. 3

C. 5

D. 6

Lake

Superior

Lake

Huron

Lake

Erie

Lake

OntarioLake

Michigan

The Great Lakes

are the largest fresh surface water system on Earth.

The total size of it is about 245 thousand square kms.

It supplies about one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water and nine-tenths of the U.S. water.

B.

6. Which is the national flag of Canada?

A.

C. D.

continentmeasure

slight scenery

minister Prime minister

aboard border

acreurban

surroundharbour

n. 洲；大陆vt. & vi. 测量；衡量adj. 轻微的；微小的 n. 景色；风景n. 大臣；部长n. 首相；丞相prep. & adv. 在船，火车

上n. 边界；国界n. 英亩adj. 城市的vt. & vi. 包围；围绕n. 海港

Words preview

Vancouver

Calgary

Thunder Bay

Toronto

Ottawa

Montreal

温哥华卡尔加里桑德湾多伦多渥太华蒙特利尔

Expressions preview

A Trip on “The True North”

Follow the characters of the passage to travel across Canada

Predict What might be included in the journey?

Scenery (What did they see?)

Trip to Canada

What did they hear about?What did they do?

Places (Where did they go?)

Skim the passage and then answer the

following questions:

1) What is the passage mainly about?

It is about _____ of two girls; and it

tells us some information about ______.2) What is “The True North”? The True North is a name of _____________________.

a trip

Canada

the cross-Canada train

Task 1 Skimming

Match the main idea of the 3 parts

Part 1

Para(s)___

Part 2

Para(s)___

Part 3

Para(s)____

A. What they really saw and

felt after boarding the train

B. Brief introduction of their

trip

C. Their chat on their way to

the station

1

2

3-5

Find out the route of the two girls traveling across Canada.

VancouverRocky MountainsCalgary

Thunder Bay

Lake SuperiorToronto

Task2 Scanning

Rock

y

Mounta

in

s

The Great Lakes

Task 3 Listen and Answer1. Why were the cousins not flying directly to Atlantic coas

t?

2. What is the continent they were crossing?

3. Which is the warmest part in Canada?

4. Why did they begin to realize two days later that Canada is quite empty?

Because they wanted to take the train from west To east across Canada.

The North American continent.

Vancouver is the warmest part of Canada.

Because there are only thirty million people living on such a huge land and most of them live within the areas of the USA border.

plane

train.

Brief introduction about the trip

who _______ and her cousin ______

why to _________________

how first by______ ,

then by______

where

Li Daiyu Liu Qian

Montreal, Canada

visit their cousins

Analyse the passage

Read Para.1 and finish the chart below

1. _____________ 2._________________

Population(increasing rapidly)

Part 2 Their chat on their way to the station

Para.2

Canada

distance ____________

(from coast to coast)Going eastward, you’ll pass

1.______________

3.______________________

Vancouver

the warmest partthe most beautiful city

3. _______________ _______________

5._________________

4. ______________

______________wet climate

trees (extremely tall measuring 90 meters)

___________

mountains

wide rivers & large cities

2. ____________scenery

5,500 kilometres

beautiful forests

oldest & most

one of Canada’s most popular cities

lakes & forests

Part 3 What they really saw and how they felt after boarding the train

Read Paras 3-5 and answer the following questions.

1 What mountains did they cross ealier that day?

2 Which city did they go after crossing the mountains?

3 What did the girls think about Canada after 2 days’ travel?

4 Where did they go after dinner?

5 Which lake did the train rush across that night, and what’s their next destination( 目的地 )?

1Earlier that day, …Rocky Mountains.

2 … Calgary…

3 After 2 days’ travel, … empty…

4 After dinner, …Thunder Bay…

5 That night … across Lake Superior

… Toronto

Vancouver

Tim

e

route

The Rockey Mountains

Calgary Stampede

Thunder Bay

Toronto

Summary:

Time line

Earlier that day After 2 days’ travel

After dinner

How to write travel notes( 游记 )?

That night

Retell the passage Li Daiyu and Liu Qian took the train in Canada from____ to ___.Their cousins’ friend, Danny Lin, took them to thetrain station to catch “_________ “.Canada is the______

biggest country in the world. It is 5,500 kilometers from _____ to____. As they go_______, they saw beautiful scenery as well as cities. Vancouver is ________ by mountains on the north and east. When the cousins ____ _____ in the seats, they looked out of the window. They saw mountain goats and even a____ bear. Calgary is famous for its competition. Many of the cowboys from all over North America __ _ __ __working with animals. Then they ____ ____ a wheat-growing province.Thunder Bay is a busy port. It is____ __ the center of the country.

west

east

The True North second

coast

coast eastward

surrounded

settled down

grizzly

have a gift for

went through

close to

Discussion

You can choose any one to discuss.

1. Which part of the passage interests

you most?

2. If you go to Canada, where will you

go? Why?

Tips:

Beginning: If I have the chance to travel

to Canada, I prefer to go to ___, which

impressed me most. ____ is a… city.

The reasons are as follows:

Body: Firstly,… Then,…. Besides,….

Ending: So I’d like to choose ____.

Assignment

1.Write down your travel plan .2.Find out the most beautiful sentences and recite them.3.Retell the text with your desk mates

Thank you very much!

9.98million km2

5,500km